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A-Frame Seismic Safety

I'm trying to find information regarding the seismic safety/stability of A-Frame homes (or buildings more generally). Unfortunately, the phrase "a frame" finds pretty much everything there is to find regarding every sort of building design and engineering, so I'm having little success in finding any information specific to A-Frames. Can anyone provide either information, or pointers, or meta-pointers on this topic?

Well, it's a big roof. So, you might start with reading the residential code and its prescriptive requirements for building design. I also am understanding that you might be a student? This might be a good time to go to the library and get books on structural design, and stop searching the Internet.

Buildings, regardless of shape, must be designed to take gravity loads and lateral loads. The lateral loads include wind and seismic. So, research lateral load design.

The point - that you missed entirely - is proposed to keep newbies from posting new topics until they have demonstrated some level of participation in the archinect community and clogging up the forums with what are more often than not requests that would be more approriately satisfied with the application of a little diligence and intelligence.

Granted, some amusement value would probably be lost, but it's largely sophomoric at best.

The most common form of seismic retrofit to lower buildings is adding strength to the existing structure to resist seismic forces. The strengthening may be limited to connections between existing building elements or it may involve adding primary resisting elements such as walls or frames, particularly in the lower stories.